Toyah - Take The Leap Plus - VINYL LP

Toyah's 1994 solo album Take The Leap! Is issued on limited edition picture disc vinyl for the first time ever. The picture disc features colour images on each side of the vinyl and is housed in special die-cut outer sleeve containing previously unseen photography from the original album shoot. Toyah's 1994 studio album was recorded with Salisbury band Friday Forever and includes eight re-recordings of classic Toyah material and six original compositions.

The young guard leaps in! Contemporary jazz has found a genuine new dream team here with a quartet featuring Richard Manetti on guitar and Baptiste Herbin on saxophone, together with bassist Jérémy Bruyère and drummer Nicolas Charlier. The priceless pair of soloists - specialists of the guitar and saxophone - are internationally renowned musicians whose talents are acknowledged by all. And the rhythm section is not left behind they provide a made-to-measure setting whose sparkling efficiency is rare indeed. This is a resolutely modern album with influences ranging from bop to jazzfunk, and the quartet creates a skilful balance between ballads and a feverish groove. Augustin BONDOUX / Patrick FRÉMEAUX

Limited 180gm gray colored vinyl LP pressing. 2021 from the British singer/songwriter. Toyah made the album Posh Pop with her long-term songwriting partner Simon Darlow. Posh Pop is a strong collection of infectious and affirmative pop songs that are as joyous as they are reflective, from the cosmic groove of InchSpace DanceInch, to the sun-kissed anthem of unity InchSummer Of LoveInch. The album is crafted with evocative storytelling and musicianship from Toyah, Simon Darlow (guitars, keyboards, cello), Bobby Willcox (guitar) and Jeremy Stacey (drums). Posh Pop opens with the energy-burst of InchLevitateInch and leads the listener on a journey that climaxes in the soaring, intergalactic-tinged InchTake Me HomeInch. The album was inspired by the world we find ourselves in today and touches on the ever-present desire to be 'famous for fifteen minutes' a la Andy Warhol, escaping the everyday, but above all staying connected to humankind beyond computer screens and geography. Produced by Simon Darlow, Posh Pop is Toyah's first brand new studio solo album since 2008 and twenty-fifth album since 1979.